escape_artist said...

escape_artist at 01:59 PM JST - 22nd December

True leaders don't blame others when their myopia, greed, and lust for power masquerading as service to the country leads the country and her people down & backward, rather than up and forward. Cheney is indeed a dangerous person who puts himself above everything else, always has been, and to…

Posted in Cheney blames Congress for failing to help struggling automakers at 01:59 PM JST - 22nd December
escape_artist at 06:17 PM JST - 21st December

Can you imagine what society will be like when food and other necessity prices also go up 10%, or more? I see the numbers of homeless heading up and up, the government turning their backs on it as they have been, and the rich just looking for more loopholes and…

Posted in Yosano says Japan needs to double consumption tax to 10% at 06:17 PM JST - 21st December
escape_artist at 06:56 PM JST - 18th December

floyd_43, you do sound incredibly cruel, and apparently blinded by the belief that somehow companies exist in a vacuum, in a closed-self-loop, separate and distinct from the rest of society that they naturally interact with, giving but usually doing a lot more taking.

No one is asking for companies, especially…

Posted in Toyota allows dismissed workers to stay for 1 month in dorm at 06:56 PM JST - 18th December
escape_artist at 04:20 PM JST - 18th December

Japan, the land of the suspended sentence. What a farcical sense of justice.

Posted in 3 sumo wrestlers get suspended terms for fatal hazing of teen stablemate at 04:20 PM JST - 18th December
escape_artist at 12:53 PM JST - 3rd December

Hey, send the police a copy of Minority Report... They'll learn how to be good proactive reactionaries. On the other hand... not sure I'd like living in a society that encourages the "attitude" from authorities (and those they enlist) of being presumed guilty without having done anything wrong nor any…

Posted in We'll change our conventional attitude, which has been to act only after crimes are committed, and will instead adopt a more proactive stance toward cutting crime and eliminating the factors that cause fear in society. at 12:53 PM JST - 3rd December
escape_artist at 04:53 PM JST - 2nd December

I bought a new flat-screen monitor yesterday and was told by the salesclerk that the things are made to last 3-5 years. He spoke as if he was proud of how long that was, too. I cringed at the thought but had to buy something.

There's such an out-of-space, out-of-mind…

Posted in Flat TVs, drying machines added to mandatory recycling list at 04:53 PM JST - 2nd December
escape_artist at 10:35 AM JST - 29th November

The sickness that is obsessive consumerism... http://www.storyofstuff.com/

Posted in 2 men shot dead in Toys 'R' Us brawl; Wal-Mart worker dies after rampaging shoppers knock him down at 10:35 AM JST - 29th November
escape_artist at 12:59 PM JST - 26th November

I've always wondered about a society that treats women and men's crotch areas the same as someone wearing a pair of handcuffs, with the naive notion that using the fuzzies will actually "hide" them all from someone or "protect" someone from someone else. The authorities' stupidity is clearly in plain…

Posted in 17 arrested for selling illegal porn at DVD shops in Tokyo at 12:59 PM JST - 26th November
escape_artist at 03:07 PM JST - 10th November

I wonder if the people of Darfur, Congo or the Gaza have their eating contests too? Sheesh. I don't care how "traditional" some in Japan might think this is, it's still a rather sad commentary on the priorities here. Right down there with diamond-encrusted iPhones, yup.

Posted in Woman downs 383 bowls of soba in 10 minutes at 03:07 PM JST - 10th November
escape_artist at 12:28 AM JST - 8th November

What is it with this constant stream of suspended sentences for high officials who are convicted and found guilty? How is this supposed to discourage others from not doing it too? What a sham.

Posted in Ex-education official given suspended prison term for taking bribe at 12:28 AM JST - 8th November